Playa Hermosa, Guanacaste, Costa Rica
June 4, 2008
I went diving in the Pacific ocean for the first time yesterday. The visibility was not wonderful, but the marine life was incredible. On our first dive at Punta Argentina, a small island off shore, we saw two white tipped sharks, the second was pregnant and nearly 5ft in length. We also spotted octopus in the crags and a large spotted manta ray as well as several moray eels. On the second dive I finally saw my first turtle intermitantly sleeping underneath some rocks. We also came upon an area where four white tipped sharks were wimming around in circles and later to a small wreck with large schools of fish, octopus, and a puffer fish.
Playa Hermosa is much quieter, cleaner, and overall more pleasant that the other surrounding beaches we have visited, namely Playa Coco and Ocotol. There is no main road, only the paved one leaving town and a narrow dirt road that runs behind the handful of restaurants and hotels. Howler monkeys and iguanas roam around freely.
